FoldingText
FoldingText is a text editor and outlining tool for macOS designed for writers, students, and task managers. It combines a distraction-free writing environment with hierarchical note-taking and task management features, allowing users to create and manipulate outlines, apply tags and filters, and organize thoughts and to-do lists in a single document. The app supports plain-text storage and has an extensible plugin system, making it popular among power users who favour keyboard-driven workflows and plain-text file formats.
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1 suggestionFoldingText is currently under slow, active development by a new owner (David Croy purchased it from the original creator Jesse in 2022), but no native Apple Silicon build has been released as of May 2026. The latest publicly available version (2.3) is Intel-only and requires Rosetta 2 to run on M-series Macs. The developer has publicly stated that a beta build is in progress with a goal of feature parity with the 2.x line, but there is no public release date or commitment to native Apple Silicon support yet. Since Apple is removing Rosetta 2 in macOS 28 (September 2028), your window to use this Intel-only version natively is closing. If you rely on FoldingText's unique outlining and tagging workflow, monitor the FoldingText support forum (support.doubledogsoftware.com) for announcements of a native beta release, or contact the developer directly to ask about Apple Silicon plans. As a contingency, consider Bike (an outline editor by the same original FoldingText creator, with native Apple Silicon support) or Obsidian (a note-taking and outlining app available natively on Apple Silicon), though both have different feature sets and workflows — neither is a drop-in replacement.
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